A governmental power known as Arahma keeps a tight rein over the planet Ryocelin. Horrific news surfaces from a small base south-west of the Arahmian city, forcing Lanni, a lowly soldier, to flee in panic. His flight soon brings him to the southern city called Gexa, the last remaining city not yet under Arahma's jurisdiction. Here Lanni meets Kor, the illusive leader of Gexa's rebel faction. An iron-willed determined man, he holds a careful suspicion of Lanni's sudden presence. Lanni and Kor are bound in a quest to find Cyek, a mysterious soldier who once fought for Arahma. He is in search of himself to fill the gaps in his memory. Kor offers a handsome proposal to aid Cyek in his search if he in turn helps them. But all is not so simple for Cyek...The exciting journey that unravels leads Lanni and Kor to many others who become tied to a quest that will bring them all face to face with fear, tragedy and bloodshed.

The first issue of the classic pulp magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science (later renamed Astounding Science Fiction, and currently being published as Analog Science Fiction) presents a mix of science fiction adventure stories by top writers of the day. Included are "Phantoms of Reality," by Ray Cummings; "The Beetle Horde," by Victor Rousseau; "Tank," by Murray Leinster; "The Cave of Horror," by Captain S.P. Meek; and many others.

Mr Weetman makes cereal, and lots of it. He likes to make money, and pots of it! During one memorable trip home, his private plane has a terrifying encounter with a UFO. Upon landing, Mr Weetman finds more than he bargained for, as he discovers a number of unexplained items in his suitcase. He decides to hide them in cereal boxes for his next big promotion. They appear to be robots, but are they really toys? William is desperate to get his hands on one, but so is every other school child in the country. Can he find one in time, before everyone realises that they are actually extra-terrestrials? Discover what happens on William's thrilling adventure...it's out of this world!

"A psychedelic odyssey of hallucinations-within-hallucinations from which no reader emerges unscathed."--"Boston Globe"
On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value.

This Nebula Award nominee is one of Philip K. Dick's enduring classics, at once a deep character study, a dark mystery, and a tightrope walk along the edge of reality and illusion.

Five murders on an untamed world. Two fugitives on the run. The hunt is on. When celebrated Omicron detective Ferrix Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know what to expect. The place used to be a tourist attraction, but the safari tours were discontinued long ago due to rampant poaching. Only a handful of researchers live there now, including Jan Corbija, the disfigured young woman who reported the breach. The deeper Vaughn digs, the more the evidence seems to point to a recent raid on a biotech facility in a nearby system. Whatever was stolen from there, it's attracted the attention of major political players in a time of war across the colonies. Vaughn suspects the secret is on Hesperidia, in the hands of the two fugitives who fled the murder scene. If he wants to get to them first, he's going to need Jan's help. Her Alien Safari tour will have to reopen for this final excursion. But to survive it, they'll both need to face their demons, for a predator far deadlier than man roams the wilds of Hesperidia. And this is its killing season. This way for the ride of your life.

The year is 2349. Pirate Ben Long and crew face trouble. Chased by the Space Navy, they fall through a black hole. Their ship Lion survives, piloted by Sugar, Ben's android, but in a new dimension adventures crowd them. They rescue Terri, an alien warrior in an escape pod and go to her planet Xenaria. Bugs have taken control of it. With Terri driven by revenge, she, Ben, Sugar and Ahmad, Lion's First Lieutenant, land to fight. Captured by bugs, they escape, steal an enemy ship and head back to Lion only to find her hijacked. When they recover the ship, Sugar and Terri duel over Ben. Then it's on to a meeting with bugs - and an unforeseeable proposal. More surprises follow -

Set in the early 22nd century, MK121 is a tale of political intrigue, corruption, human relationships and action of a kind usually reserved for the realms of science fantasy, but set against a believable background based on past, current and potential future developments. Drake Featherstone is the captain of a space cruiser, the MK121, which is part of the Earth's protection arm, Space Force. Tasked with what initially appears to be a rescue of personnel from an Earth outpost, he and his crew soon discover that all is not what they expected. Meantime, the bulk of the Space Force fleet has been despatched to reclaim an Earth protectorate planet from an aggressive alien empire leaving Earth defenceless and potentially at the mercy of politically motivated forces. Interlaced in the story is the relationship between Featherstone and his first officer, Rachenda Lindberg. Having rescued the beleaguered personnel from the damaged outpost, matters twist and turn until the full truth of why the mission was necessary emerges and the consequences of the despatch of the fleet become obvious. The climax to the story is both dramatic and unexpected.

The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.

But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.

Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens ...

An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure! While attempting to settle in as commandant of Starfleet Academy, Admiral James T. Kirk must suddenly contend with the controversial, turbulent integration of an alien warrior caste into the student body-and quickly becomes embroiled in conflict when the Academy controversy escalates to murder. Meanwhile, Captain Spock of the USS Enterprise and Commander Pavel Chekov of the USS Reliant are investigating a series of powerful cosmic storms seemingly targeting Federation worlds-unstoppable outbursts emitting from the very fabric of space. Endeavoring to predict where the lethal storms will strike next, Spock and Chekov make the shocking discovery that the answer lies in Commander Nyota Uhura's past-one that she no longer remembers.... (TM), (R), & (c) 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The new leaders of America and Russia are deeply suspicious of each other. A bomb goes off in a holy city. International tension mounts. and World War Three breaks out. As destruction rains down on the Earth, scientists come up with a plan to save something of the human race before the world is destroyed for ever by nuclear war. Two individuals, Adam and Eve, are chosen to go into suspended animation for nearly two hundred years. Eventually they wake up and find a small group of humans still alive. they try to teach these humans how best to survive the hostile environment on this new and dangerous Earth. Using their special skills, Adam and Eve win a battle with an alien race of androids, but they don't live for ever. What will happen to the remaining humans without their help? Is there any hope for the future of the Earth? The author gives us a fascinating glimpse of the future a century, a millennium, several millennia from now. But this colourful book is as much for those who love an exciting adventure story as for fans of science fiction.

This collection of short stories, set entirely in the future, takes in everything from robot politicians to time travelling students and plenty of creatures that I would be unable to describe fully in this small space, some of them human. Some stories are allegorical, some are political whilst others are simply quick yarns. The stories here also fit a particular time line of events; so whilst you don't need to read all of the stories in order to understand each individual story, most of the tales are all interconnected by a certain history of events. The influence of the Venusian War, the advancement of robot spies and the importance of the Sphere should hopefully become clear in a few hours!

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451"is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

CRAIGS' LEGACY She's from the twenty-first century... Thrust back in time, Frankie Mathews is the quintessential fish out of water. She's gone from running a major money market fund to a world where women milk cows. Too bad for Frankie that the nearest she's ever been to a cow is a "Got Milk" commercial. Now, she has to save the life of Confederate Colonel Benjamin Craig and return to her own century with him in tow, before she changes history beyond recognition-and gets killed in the process. He's been fighting the Civil War in 1864... To survive the Union deserters and his grasping, widowed sister-in-law, Ben needs Frankie's quick thinking and never-give-up attitude that comes from her independence as a 21st Century woman. But can the two lovers span the centuries between them and find a common future?

'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border - an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown.